Live Blog: The Aurora Theater Shooting Trial

Live updates from The Denver Post staff and others inside the courtroom of the Aurora Theater Shooting Trial.

After more than three years, the Aurora theater shooting trial will end Wednesday morning as Judge Carlos Samour Jr. imposes James Holmes' final sentence for the murders of 12 people and the attempted murders of 70 others.

A defense attorney announced Tuesday that his side will not appeal the convictions or the sentence.

A jury last month convicted Holmes of 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and explosives possession for the attack on the Century Aurora 16 movie theater. The murder convictions alone guarantee Holmes will serve a mandatory 12 consecutive life sentences in prison. The remaining counts could bring as many as 3,300 additional years in prison depending on Samour's sentence.

On Tuesday, prosecutor George Brauchler argued for the judge to impose the harshest, maximum sentence.

When defense attorney Daniel King addressed Samour in court Tuesday, he made no recommendation on the defendant's sentence.